London: Whittaker and Co., 1861. Second Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xl,656pp. Cloth scuffed with exposure at corners and loss at spine ends as well as mid-spine, dust-soil to textblock edges, contemporary ownership rubberstamp of an. F.J.R. Bentley to front pastedown and textblock..... More
![Item #13775 Aesop's Fables [Signed by Artzybasheff]. Aesop, Boris Artzybasheff, ed](/pictures/thumb/13775.jpg?v=1659387491)
New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii,86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1976. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's blue-grey printed card wrappers; xiii,[1],272pp. Light shelf wear, spine rather sunned and faintly creased, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Vol. XXVIII of Philosophia Antiqua: A series of monographs on ancient philosophy. More
Islamabad, Pakistan: Islamic Research Institute, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; x,178pp.; facsimiles bound in text. Minor shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Bilingual text in English and Arabic. Date..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in bright yellow printed dust jacket; [6],145pp. Light wear from handling and very faint curving to boards, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good. More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket; [8],240pp. Minor wear from handling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle. More
Cantabrigiae, MA: E Prelo Universitatis. Sumtibus Cummings, Hilliard, et So. Bibliopolarum, 1824. Editio Quarta Americana [Fourth American Edition]. Two volumes; octavo; full contemporary sheep, black gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges speckled; xvi,364,170,viii; xv,[1],344,296pp. Leather rather scuffed with some brief peeling along extremities, faint contemporary manuscript library spine labels, front joint..... More
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1972. Quarto; publisher's blue-grey cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt; lxiii,[1],335pp.; chiefly photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, stock very slightly toned, discreet ex libris to front pastedown, else Near Fine. First published in 1912. More
![Item #13485 The Golden Ass [Limited Edition, Signed by Goodman]. Apuleius, Jack Lindsay, Percival...](/pictures/thumb/13485.jpg?v=1658267340)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Percival Goodman, this being #732. Tall octavo. 392 pp. Line drawing illustrations. Bound in full ass's hide with gilt stamping to spine. Top edge gilt; decorative endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Top corners of..... More
Birmingham: W.J. Cosby / Universal Press, 1893. Re-issue of the 1822 Triphook and Rodd Edition, limited to 600 copies (one of 500 on antique paper). Octavo (9" x 6.35"); xix, 213p +5p "Passages Suppressed" addendum. Rebound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. in dark green leather with blindstamped branch decoration..... More
![Item #6602 The Gods of Greece [Signed and with ALS to William Safire]. Arianna Stassinopoulos,...](/pictures/thumb/6602.jpeg?v=1596821069)
New York: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [8],338pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, faint spine crease, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and occasional marginalia to early leaves of text, else Very Good and sound. Contents include the original Ancient Greek text accompanied by..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xi,[1],354pp. Light shelf wear, front hinge cracked but holding, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Includes the original Ancient Greek text with introductory matter and notes in English. More
Cambridge: University Press, 1909. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's maroon blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vi,[2],214pp. Faint but large dampstain to cloth at bottom corner of front board, extremities a bit scuffed with brief exposure at spine ends (chipped at head) and corners, light soil to front free endpaper, opens flatly between..... More
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1965. Facsimile reprint of the first (1907) edition. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; lxxxiii,[1],626pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, spine rather toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy overall. Includes Aristotle's original Ancient Greek text with English translation on facing..... More
Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1950. Reprint. Four octavo volumes. 580 pp.; 418 pp.; 603 pp.; 705 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Boards show light edgewear with heavier bumping at spine ends; spine a touch toned. Separation at tops of spines, but bindings holding..... More
Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner Verlag, 1974. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; [4],475pp.; charts throughout, one folding. Cloth heavily sunned at spine and top margins of both boards, spine gilt dulled, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy overall, internally clean and sound. More
Taurini: Marietti, 1966. First Thus. Large octavo; publisher's pale grey simulated cloth, maroon and gilt spine titling; xxx,449pp.; text mostly printed in double column. Board extremities and textblock rather toned, dark dampstain affecting spine foot bleeding into both covers, boards bowing at fore-edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper..... More
Taurini: Marietti, 1964. Editio Tertia. Octavo; publisher's pale grey blind-ruled simulated cloth, red and gilt spine titling; xv,[1],610pp.; text in double columns. Light wear, corners bumped, spine rather darkened, titling very slightly flaking, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, textblock uniformly toned; nevertheless, a Very Good, still quite presentable..... More
Louvain: Éditions de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, 1941. First Thus. Folio; publisher's printed wrappers; 254pp. Wrappers quite toned and worn with numerous long shallow losses along extremities, top quarter of spine perished and rear cover starting to separate, later (1965) ownership signature to half title; a Good reading copy only..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1964. First Thus. Two volumes; octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines; xiii,[3],534; xiii,[3],[535]-1000pp.; text printed in double columns. Pinpoint shelf wear, spines rather dulled and slightly creased, front hinge of Vol. I cracked with half title starting to separate and front board opening shakily, contemporary ownership..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1961. First Thus. Two volumes; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines; xxiii,[3],451; [7],[452]-955pp.; text printed in double column. Spines a bit toned and gilt quite dulled, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper with some fairly extensive annotations to early leaves of Vol. I, else a Very..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First thus. Octavo. 319 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Koestler's first book, originally published in 1939, is the story of Spartacus and the slave revolt of 73-71 BCE. First in Koestler's political trilogy of idealism gone wrong, along..... More
London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852. First English-Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (23cm.); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines; frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Extremities scuffed and corners bumped with brief exposure, all three volumes quite crudely recased, text blocks exceedingly brittle with preliminaries starting to separate or entirely..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Edgar Miller, this being #432. Large octavo. 53 pp. Seven tempera paintings by Miller, consisting of the frontispiece and six double-page spreads. Bound in full natural lambskin with a scroll pattern to front and rear, and..... More